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Acetic acid, glacial (260)

Functional Classes: Acidity regulator, Preservative

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GSFA Provisions for Acetic acid, glacial

N°

Food Category

Max Level

Notes

14.1.5.0

Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa

GMP

160: For use in ready-to-drink products and pre-mixes for ready-to-drink products only.

N°

14.1.5.0

Food Category

Coffee, coffee substitutes, tea, herbal infusions, and other hot cereal and grain beverages, excluding cocoa

Max Level

GMP

Notes

160: For use in ready-to-drink products and pre-mixes for ready-to-drink products only.

13.2.0.0

Complementary foods for infants and young children

5000 mg/kg

238: Except for use in products corresponding to the Standard for Processed Cereal-Based Foods for Infants and Young Children (CODEX STAN 74-1981) at GMP.

N°

13.2.0.0

Food Category

Complementary foods for infants and young children

Max Level

5000 mg/kg

Notes

238: Except for use in products corresponding to the Standard for Processed Cereal-Based Foods for Infants and Young Children (CODEX STAN 74-1981) at GMP.

09.2.4.0

Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

GMP

N°

09.2.4.0

Food Category

Cooked and/or fried fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

Max Level

GMP

Notes

04.2.2.7

Fermented vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera) and seaweed products, excluding fermented soybean products of food categories 06.8.6, 06.8.7, 12.9.1, 12.9.2.1 and 12.9.2.3

GMP

N°

04.2.2.7

Food Category

Max Level

GMP

Notes

09.2.2.0

Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

GMP

41: For use in breading or batter coatings only.

XS166: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Quick Frozen Fish Sticks (Fish Fingers), Fish Portions and Fish Fillets – Breaded or in Batter (CODEX STAN 166-1989).

N°

09.2.2.0

Food Category

Frozen battered fish, fish fillets, and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

Max Level

GMP

Notes

10.2.2.0

Frozen egg products

GMP

N°

10.2.2.0

Food Category

Frozen egg products

Max Level

GMP

Notes

09.2.3.0

Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

GMP

16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only.

N°

09.2.3.0

Food Category

Frozen minced and creamed fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

Max Level

GMP

Notes

16: For use in glaze, coatings or decorations for fruit, vegetables, meat or fish only.

04.2.2.1

Frozen vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds

GMP

262: For use in edible fungi and fungus products only.

263: Except for use in pickled fungi at 20 000 mg/kg.

N°

04.2.2.1

Food Category

Frozen vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds

Max Level

GMP

Notes

262: For use in edible fungi and fungus products only.

263: Except for use in pickled fungi at 20 000 mg/kg.

10.2.1.0

Liquid egg products

GMP

N°

10.2.1.0

Food Category

Liquid egg products

Max Level

GMP

Notes

12.1.2.0

Salt Substitutes

GMP

N°

12.1.2.0

Food Category

Salt Substitutes

Max Level

GMP

Notes

09.2.5.0

Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

GMP

437: Excluding use in smoke-dried fish conforming to the Standard for Smoked Fish, SmokeFlavoured Fish and Smoke-Dried Fish (CODEX STAN 311-2013).

XS167: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Salted Fish and Dried Salted Fish of the Gadidae Family of Fishes (CODEX STAN 167-1989).

XS189: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Dried Shark Fins (CODEX STAN 189-1993).

XS222: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Crackers from Marine and Freshwater Fish, Crustaceans and Molluscan Shellfish (CODEX STAN 222-2001).

XS236: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Boiled Dried Salted Anchovies (CODEX STAN 236-2003).

XS244: Excluding products conforming to the Standard for Salted Atlantic Herring and Salted Sprat (CODEX STAN 244-2004).

N°

09.2.5.0

Food Category

Smoked, dried, fermented, and/or salted fish and fish products, including mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms

Max Level

GMP

Notes

04.2.1.1

Untreated fresh vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes [(including soybeans)], and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds

GMP

262: For use in edible fungi and fungus products only.

263: Except for use in pickled fungi at 20 000 mg/kg.

N°

04.2.1.1

Food Category

Untreated fresh vegetables (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes [(including soybeans)], and aloe vera), seaweeds, and nuts and seeds

Max Level

GMP

Notes

262: For use in edible fungi and fungus products only.

263: Except for use in pickled fungi at 20 000 mg/kg.

01.6.6.0

Whey protein cheese

GMP

N°

01.6.6.0

Food Category

Whey protein cheese

Max Level

GMP

Notes

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Note: Unless otherwise specified, food additive provisions apply to the food category indicated (e.g. Dairy), as well as to all subcategories of that category (e.g. Cheese, Ripened Cheese, etc.).

GSFA Table 3 Provisions

Acetic acid, glacial is a food additive that is included in Table 3, and as such may be used in the following foods under the conditions of good manufacturing practices (GMP) as outlined in the Preamble of the Codex GSFA. Although not listed below, Acetic acid, glacial could also be used in heat-treated butter milk of food category 01.1.1 and spices of food category 12.2.1.
Note that food categories listed in the Annex to Table 3 were excluded accordingly.

Acetic acid, glacial is acceptable in foods conforming to the following commodity standards: CS 70-1981, CS 94-1981, CS 119-1981, CS 302-2011, CS 249-2006, CS 221-2001, CS 273-1968, CS 275-1973.

Acetic acid, glacial is a: Acidity regulator, Preservative.
Any Acidity regulator listed in Table 3 can be acceptable for use in all products conforming to CS 117-1981, CS 309R-2011, CS 291-2010, CS 319-2015, CS 256-2007.
Any Preservative listed in Table 3 can be acceptable for use in all products conforming to CS 117-1981, CS 291-2010, CS 256-2007.